List of Nivkh settlements

List of notable Nivkh (Gilyak) settlements in Sakhalin Island and the Lower Amur River. Prior 1905 settlements are listed from north to south in their geographical categories with most settlement names in the Nivkh language or in the only know given Russian name.

Nivkh concentrations after 1960's Soviet resettlement

*Nogliki- Largest modern Nivkh Settlement with a Nivkh population of 749 with 26 more residing in the nearby Nyivo Bay comprising 5.2% of the Nogliki population of 14,830 as of 2000. [ [http://sakhalin-2.ru/en/documents/doc_38_sia_chp6.pdf "Indigenous Peoples' Consultation Programme :Social Impact Assessment"] . Sakhalin Energy Investment Company. p.13 - (Adobe Acrobat *.PDF document)]

*Okha

*Nekrasovka

*Nikolaevsk- In the Amur River estuary of Khabarovsk Krai. [ Shternberg and Grant, p.xxxiv]

*Rybne

*Chir-Unvd

*Poronaisk

*Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk- Administrative center of Sakhalin Oblast in South region of the Island.

Nivkh settlements before 1905

Amur Estuary

*Nikolaevsk

*Lazatev

West Sakhalin Coast

*Tamlavo

*Ngyl'vo

*Valuevo

*Langry

*Chingai

*Pyrki

*Pogibi

*Uandi

*Ytyk'

*Viakhtu- Political exile Lev Sternberg began his ethnographic expeditions in Viakhtu on the Nivkhs and Oroks where he soon crossed Sakhalin to the Tym' River to the "black gilyak clans". [Shternberg and Grant, p.xxxii, 6 ]

*Khoe

*Tangi

*Arkovo

*Port Aleksandrovsk

akhalin Bay

*Rybnoe

*Visk'vo

*Pomyt'

*Nil'vo

*Matnyr'

*Ngyd'

*Koibgervo

East Sakhalin Coast

*Khankes'

*Urkdt'

*Pil'tun (island)

*Kakervo

*Kharkor'vo

*Chaivo

*Lad'vo

*Tyrmyts'

*Vachi

*Mil'kovo

*Tagry

*Lub'vo

*Lung'yo

*Nappi

*Ngamb'vo

Tym' River

*Yukyr'

*Chkharvo

*Slavo

*Uskovo

*Tymovo

*Rykovskoe

Footnotes

References

*Black, Lydia (1973) "Nivkh (Gilyak) of Sakhalin and the Lower Amur". Arctic Anthropology. Volume 10 No.1 p.94 ISSN 0066-6939
*Shternberg, Lev Iakovlevich and Bruce Grant. (1999) "The Social Organization of the Gilyak". New York: American Museum of Natural History. Seattle: University of Washington Press ISBN 029597799X

External links

* [http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook/nivkhs.shtml The Nivkhs] from The Red Book